to ricochet
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7.7
- verb
- /ˈrɪkəˌʃeɪ/
:
rebotar
- The nail struck a nearby wall, ricocheted back toward him, and struck him in the head.
I remember here right next to my mouth and ricocheted down my back.
- I remember here right next to my mouth and ricocheted down my back.
- There's damage on the vertebra in X-rays and ricocheted slightly upwards and exited the throat and the limo.
Examples
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The bullet ricocheted off the wall and narrowly missed him.
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You don't want it ricocheting back into the room.
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"Will that thing ricochet?" I said, "Not till it hits a rock."
Fiction book (1991) -
Everything ricochets off that truck.
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Apparently, a piece of the glass from the bottle had ricocheted back and hit him.
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One rock ricocheted off a street sign, then bounced off the wall below Amanda.
Fiction book (1999) -
In cart 1 - Mason and Goodspeed duck as bullets ricochet around the tunnel walls.
Fiction book (1996) -
A shot rings out and ricochets off a piece of piping right over Marshall's head.
Fiction book (1997) -
The voices of hundreds of convicts ricocheted off the steel bars, creating a thunderous din.
Academic text (2005) -
Chief and Vernon open fire with their automatics, their bullets ricocheting off the android's titanium shell.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
386
1.3
To move quickly away from a surface after hitting it, moving up and down in a springy way
141
1.0
To move suddenly by jumping, leaping, or bouncing
33
3.4
To hit a surface and move away from it
19
2.9
To spring back after hitting something
1
4.4
To hit a surface and bounce away
1
9.5
To bounce off something and move away at an angle
To hit and bounce off with a sharp sound
How Bouncy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ricochet comes from the same French sound word for a quick bounce. That's why to ricochet means to 'bounce' off a surface, often at an angle, rather than stopping.